Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrumen…

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.